Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

J C Bach symphonies 48 ok, 43 dodgy!

oh, well done, I couldn't see that information anywhere - great question AG

I wonder if FHG has time for a question ?

should I tidy up? - London

VW London Symphony premiered Queen's Hall, second performance Harrogate
JC (London) Bach - 91 disputed symphonies
Ralph McTell - Streets of London (old girl ......carrying ... two carrier bags)

[cloughie]

J C Bach symphonies 48 ok, 43 dodgy!

this link mercs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach#Works

[antongould]

oh, well done, I couldn't see that information anywhere - great question AG

I wonder if FHG has time for a question ?

should I tidy up? - London

VW London Symphony premiered Queen's Hall, second performance Harrogate
JC (London) Bach - 91 disputed symphonies
Ralph McTell - Streets of London (old girl ......carrying ... two carrier bags)

Cheers mercs sorry work meetings.......but then you are doing Essential Classics.....

[mercia]

I expect FHG is busy



M linking

- symphonically "the art or science of making and flying aircraft"
- a "greeting" overture
- seaside golf courses (for orchestra)

[Nick Armstrong]

M linking

- symphonically "the art or science of making and flying aircraft"

A Belgian chap by the name of Bruno Misonne has written a piece called "Aviation Music" http://www.brunomisonne.com/music/aviation-music

Might he be the M?

[mercia]

Might he be the M?

not on this occasion

but aviation is indeed your word

............ symphonically ............

[amateur51]

Marc Blitzstein wrote an Airborne Symphony

Blimey it's snowing again

[mercia]

Marc Blitzstein wrote an Airborne Symphony

sorry, it's definitely Aviation Symphony [prompted by the crash of a Russian plane]

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah! It's our old friend Comrade Myaskovsky...

His 16th was the 'Aviation Symphony' - fascinating and baleful stuff...

"On May 18, 1935, the giant Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky (pilots – I. V. Mikheyev and I. S. Zhurov) and three more planes (Tupolev ANT-14, R-5 and I-5) took off for a demonstration flight over Moscow. The main purpose of the other three planes flying so close was to make evident the difference in size. As a result of a poorly executed loop manoeuvre (a third such stunt on this flight) around the plane performed by an accompanying I-5 fighter (pilot – Nikolai Blagin), both planes collided and the Maxim Gorky crashed into a low-rise residential neighbourhood west of present-day Sokol metro station.

Forty-five people were killed in the crash, including crew members and 33 family members of some of those who had built the aircraft. (While authorities announced that the fatal manoeuvre was impromptu and reckless, it has been recently suggested that it might have been a planned part of the show.) Also killed was the fighter pilot, Blagin, who was made a scapegoat in the crash and subsequently had his name used eponymously (Blaginism) to mean, roughly, a "cocky disregard of authority." However, Blagin was given a state funeral at Novodevichy Cemetery together with ANT-20 victims."



His Salutation Overture was dedicated to Stalin on his sixtieth birthday

[mercia]

thanks for the details

Aviation Symphony
Salutation Overture

seaside golf courses (or bits of your bicycle chain) ?

[Nick Armstrong]

thanks for the details

Aviation Symphony
Salutation Overture

seaside golf courses (or bits of your bicycle chain) ?

Hmmm, there must be some link I'm missing....

Back soon

[Nick Armstrong]

So: Mayaskovsky....

Aviation Symphony
Salutation Overture

...and Links (Zvenya) – Suite for orchestra, Op. 65 (1945) Orchestrations of early piano pieces

Thanks, mercia - interesting rummage around a life I knew nothing about!

I guess it's me Next....

[mercia]

I guess it's me Next....

that would be wonderful

[Nick Armstrong]

that would be wonderful

As I've said elsewhere, I love an optimist!

Well.... here's an N linking Richard Rodney Bennett, the library of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and the Odyssey.

[cloughie]

As I've said elsewhere, I love an optimist!

Well.... here's an N linking Richard Rodney Bennett, the library of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and the Odyssey.

Nicholas

Nicholas and Alexandra film music - RR Bennett
Nicholas Maw wrote orchestral pieces Odyssey

can't find anything convincing regarding Cath and Henry other than something written by Nicholas Harpsfield.